tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71585668576658047742015-09-17T01:29:53.544-07:00Choosing Health.Ciara Coakleynoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158566857665804774.post-9201133507847898672014-08-15T13:07:00.000-07:002014-08-15T13:07:44.852-07:00Why Sugar ain't so sweet..<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-30gU3fFtW18/U-5i1vJIPII/AAAAAAAAACE/ljYHQzzu8-s/s1600/sugar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-30gU3fFtW18/U-5i1vJIPII/AAAAAAAAACE/ljYHQzzu8-s/s1600/sugar.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><i>Humans have been attracted to sugar since the beginning of man kind, and that's because to our ancestors , sweetness was a sign that the food&nbsp;wasn't poisonous and was safe to eat, it also&nbsp;signalled to our brains&nbsp;the food was high in&nbsp;glucose which meant an abundance of energy. This is a natural&nbsp;response to sweet food.&nbsp;</i><br /><br /><i>However all&nbsp;sugars are not equal. The sugar you add to your tea in the morning resembles nothing like its natural state.&nbsp;</i><br /><i>The juice extracted from the plant is boiled, then evaporated until it&nbsp;crystallises, and then spun until the wet juice evaporates leaving solid&nbsp;crystals . This is repeated&nbsp;twice more and then served up to you, so you can go &nbsp;down a path of sweet tasting foods and a lifetime of&nbsp;health problems.&nbsp;</i><br /><i><br /></i><u><i>'<b>Humans are smart enough to produce their own food, yet dumb enough to eat it'&nbsp;</b></i></u><br /><i><br /></i><i>But on the other hand , the natural&nbsp;occurring sugars in fruit have the perfect balance of fats ,fiber &nbsp;or protein to allow the sugar to slowly &nbsp;enter your bloodstream leaving your blood sugar levels balanced and your cravings at bay.</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Sugar casuses your pancreas to secret insulin ,(the hormone that delivers&nbsp;glucose to your bloodstream), if you eat an&nbsp;excess of sugar ( more than 6 teaspoons a day) your chances of&nbsp;becoming 'insulin resistance ' grow. This&nbsp;condition leads to heart&nbsp;diseases and type 2 diabetes.&nbsp;</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>I can't stress the dangers of&nbsp;sugar enough. It leads to weight gain, heart problems , diabetes, obesity, addiction, liver problems, cancer and&nbsp;a lot more.&nbsp;</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Honey, agave nectar(vegan) &nbsp;or stevia are&nbsp;substitutes to help you reduce the&nbsp;amount of sugar in your diet. However looking out for sugar free versions of foods and drinks such as coke zero. Although they contain no sugar or calories , they often contain&nbsp;aspartame or acesulfame k. These are by far the most dangerous&nbsp;artificial calories on the market. It still confuses me how they are currently legal. These are much more&nbsp;harmful than sugar and will&nbsp;damage your body and cause weight gain. I will do another blog post on them in the future.&nbsp;</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Thanks for reading,&nbsp;</i><br /><i>Ciara x</i>Ciara Coakleyhttps://plus.google.com/108243782059166509381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158566857665804774.post-23123441268626730992014-08-10T09:18:00.000-07:002014-08-10T09:22:46.229-07:00Why Diet's don't work, : Calorie Counting.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HhqzAIraZLw/U-ebLQ3mx_I/AAAAAAAAABk/EO4w4Kvxdsw/s1600/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HhqzAIraZLw/U-ebLQ3mx_I/AAAAAAAAABk/EO4w4Kvxdsw/s1600/images.jpeg" height="146" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Diets are hard. Really hard.</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The second you decide to go on a diet is the exact second food becomes the only thing on your mind.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i><i>Diets are inevitably going to end in failure, and it's not your fault. It's the inaccurate information that is exposed to you on a daily basis, causing you to make bad food&nbsp;decisions.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Most of us , have absorbed so much misinformation that we're not sure what to believe anymore.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i><i>Down the line, I'll get into more reasons why Diets are bad. But today I'm starting with Calories.&nbsp;</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i><i><b>CALORIES ARE&nbsp;INACCURATE!.</b></i></span><br /><i><u><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Definition of a calorie:</span></u></i><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">A calorie is just a measurement of energy ;&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">the amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius at standard atmospheric pressure.&nbsp;</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">In the 1920's the word Calorie was introduce to&nbsp;civilisation , and ever since , we.are.obsessed.&nbsp;</span></i></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">&nbsp;Millions of people every day spend endless amounts of money joining programs with calorie restricted meal plans all to find the weight&nbsp;isn't shifting and they feel awful. Calories aren't a measure of how the food will end up in your body. They're a measure of the amount of energy in that food.&nbsp;</span></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><i>for example, the average avocado has 160 calories, but a cookie can be as low as 60 calories.&nbsp;</i></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><i>Yet that avocado will make your hair shine, your skin glow , and give you an abundance of energy .</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">That cookie on the other hand , will stick right to the parts of the body you&nbsp;don't want , unless eaten in moderation.&nbsp;</span></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="line-height: 21px;">Diets became popular around the&nbsp;beginning of weight watchers and other companies alike. It's clear from&nbsp;looking back on history, that the more convenience food , the less 'real' food ,lead people to start diets. Because they we eating all the pre-packed-point labelled foods they could get their hands on, but they&nbsp;severely lacked nutrition so their weight began to rise.</span></i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; line-height: 21px;">&nbsp;We are living in a world where people are over fed, yet&nbsp;under nourished.&nbsp;</span></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Don't&nbsp;believe me? I Challenge you to 20 days of eating pure , natural good foods , with the occasional treat and not counting a&nbsp;single calorie.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Your weight will go down or stay at a healthy level , and your energy levels will soar.&nbsp;</span></i><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i><i>Think about it, has a banana ever made anyone fat?&nbsp;</i></span><br /><i><br /></i><i>Ciara, x</i>Ciara Coakleyhttps://plus.google.com/108243782059166509381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158566857665804774.post-25563302311929263332014-08-01T07:04:00.000-07:002014-08-01T07:10:29.796-07:00Intro,<i>To the few poor souls&nbsp;reading this, My Name is Ciara. I'm 19 years old and living (unfortunately) in Ireland.&nbsp;</i><br /><i>My Goal is to study Public Health in University College Cork and hopefully go on to become a certified nutritionalist .&nbsp;</i><br /><i>Honestly , I have no idea what I'm doing with this blog, but I do love health and fitness so I thought I'd write about it for the few people in the world interested in reading about my breakfast or my quickest mile.&nbsp;</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Enjoy stalking my blog,</i><br /><i>xoxo</i><br /><i><br /></i><i><br /></i><b><i>P.s &nbsp;I would really&nbsp;appreciate the follows and shares please .&nbsp;</i></b>Ciara Coakleyhttps://plus.google.com/108243782059166509381noreply@blogger.com0